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Jason Statham and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, 20-Year Age Difference

June 6, 2013

When you hear the name Jason Statham, the first things that come to mind are prob­a­bly guns, explo­sions, and a whole lot of butt kicking—all the mak­ings of an action hero.

After a career of pro­fes­sional div­ing and mod­el­ing, Statham landed his first role in Guy Ritchie’s 1998 thriller Lock, Stock and Two Smok­ing Bar­rels. The shady con–artist char­ac­ter was a per­fect fit for the actor, who had pre­vi­ously worked as a sales­man in the black mar­ket. The film was a hit, instantly launch­ing Statham’s suc­cess­ful career as one of Hollywood’s lead­ing action stars. The 45-year-old actor has since starred in mem­o­rable titles, like The Ital­ian Job, Trans­porter, The Expend­ables, and the highly-anticipated sequel Fast and Furi­ous 7.

For a lot of younger women, there’s some­thing kind of sexy about an older man with a dark, brood­ing, tough-guy image, even if it’s a char­ac­ter in a movie—it’s cer­tainly worked for Statham. Although he has kept a low pro­file, espe­cially con­cern­ing his per­sonal life, it was hard not to take notice when he stepped out in pub­lic for the first time with his much younger girl­friend, Victoria’s Secret model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, whom you might rec­og­nize from her debut appear­ance in the film Trans­form­ers: Dark of the Moon.

Many peo­ple ques­tioned what a 26-year-old model and a 45-year-old actor could pos­si­bly have in common—he does crazy stunts in action-packed block­busters, and she mod­els fash­ion and lin­gerie on run­ways and in inter­na­tional mag­a­zines. But Huntington-Whiteley recently revealed the secret to their suc­cess, even with their age dif­fer­ence: they make each other laugh. It prob­a­bly doesn’t hurt that they’re two very attrac­tive people.

Despite the sig­nif­i­cant age gap, this celebrity cou­ple has man­aged to main­tain a healthy rela­tion­ship for more than three years now. They just rein­force the idea that not all rela­tion­ships are based on age. Whether you’re two years or two decades apart, the impor­tant thing is find­ing some­one that gen­uinely makes you happy, like Huntington-Whiteley did with her older beau Statham.